INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Kazem Qaribabadi, head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters and deputy chief of the Judiciary, said on Saturday that the United
States and certain European nations were complicit in providing chemical weapons to the former Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein, and that they
should be held accountable.
Speaking at a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the Saddam regime's bombardment of Sardasht in West
been martyred and more than 100,000 injured as a result of the use of chemical weapons against the people of our country, and some of our
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), he said, more than 15 countries, mostly in Europe, as well as the United States
, were involved in arming the Saddam regime with chemical weapons and that these governments must now be held accountable for their
complicity.In addition, Qaribabadi urged the international legal bodies to hold these counties accountable, saying that lawsuit has been
filed against certain European individuals, but that is not enough.Sardasht was the first city that Saddam struck with chemical weapons
during his imposed war on Iran.In two consecutive bombing flights on four civilian districts on June 28, 1987, Iraqi planes dropped what
The impacts, which include chronic respiratory issues, eye and skin problems, immune system illnesses, psychiatric disorders, genetic
